Vizgirda et al [7] compared hot gutta-percha and lateral condensation technique with obturation of the root canal with only MTA and concluded that gutta-percha has a better apical seal compared to MTA [7].

People investigating their origins have discovered they are from the Tjipetir plantation, which in the late 19th Century was at the forefront of the global rubber boom and harvested the product from the tropical gutta-percha tree.

Surveying the expansive, intertwined histories of rubber, Tully remarks on what he calls the 'paradox' that 'the copper and the iron for [telegraph] wires were obtained from highly organised mines run as disciplined industrial undertakings, [but] the gutta-percha was provided by primitive, precapitalist extractive methods in the remote jungles of empire' (p.

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